Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Opinions

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell